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Bush

Australian films related in some way to the "bush": an inclusive but very incomplete list, and some notes

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Back of Beyond (Michael Robertson, 1995) Paul Mercurio, Colin Friels, Dee Smart, John Polson, Rebekah Elmalogou; drama; released on VHS; 94 min.

Back of Beyond, The (John Heyer, 1954) documentary, 66 min.; cf. The Inlanders (1949); mailman Tom Kruse drives his truck through the sand from Maree to Birdsville

Backlash (Bill Bennett, 1986) wr. prod. Bill Bennett, Eastman colour, 35 mm, 89 min., prod. Bill Bennett for Mermaid Beach Productions, wr. Bill Bennett, with dialogue by the cast, dp Tony Wilson, music Michael Atkinson, Michael Spicer, ed. Denise Hunter; David Argue, Gia Carides, Lydia Miller, Brian Syron; drama, thriller

Backroads (Phillip Noyce, 1977) Sydney, Colour, 16 mm, 57 or 61 min., prod. Phillip Noyce, wr. John Emery, Phillip Noyce & cast, dp Russell Boyd; Terry Camilleri, Gary Foley, Bill Hunter, Zac Martin, Julie McGregor, Essie Coffey; white drifter (Bill Hunter) and young Aborigine (Gary Foley) careen around outback NSW, with others in the cast; brief review of DVD release: Edwin Peters, Empire, 45, December 2004: 112

Bondage Of The Bush, The (Charles Woods, 1913) bush melodrama; 44 min.

Breaking of the Drought, The (Franklyn Barrett, 1920)

Bush Christmas (Ralph Smart, 1947) Children's Entertainment Films ([British] Children's Film Foundation); Chips Rafferty

Bush Christmas (Henri Safran, 1983) aka Prince and the Great Race, prod. Paul D. Barron; remake of 1947 film; John Ewart, John Howard, Nicole Kidman; 91 min.; Kidman's film debut

Bush Cinderella, The (Rudall Hayward, 1928) NZ

Bushfire Moon (George Miller, 1987) aka The Christmas Visitor; children's; Dee Wallace-Stone, John Waters, Bill Kerr, Charles Tingwell, Nadine Garner, Andrew Ferguson, Grant Piro, Kim Gyngell

Bushman's Bride (Spencer's Pictures, 1912)

Bushranger's Ransom, A, or, A Ride For Life (E. J. Cole, 1911) Ben Hall story

Bushwhackers, The (Raymond Longford, 1925)

Call Of The Bush (Charles Wood, 1912) sundowner story

Crocodile Dundee (Peter Faiman, 1986) Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, David Gulpilil (Neville Bell); 96 min.

Crocodile Dundee II (John Cornell, 1988) dp Russell Boyd; Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Ernie Dingo (Charlie)

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (Simon Wincer, 2001) Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, David Ngoombujarra (Arthur)

Dad and Dave Come To Town (Ken G. Hall, 1938) aka The Rudd Family Goes to Town; Peter Finch

Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (George Whaley, 1995) wr. George Whaley, stories by Steele Rudd; Leo McKern, Geoffrey Rush, Joan Sutherland, Ray Barrett, Noah Taylor, Barry Otto

Dad Rudd, M.P. (Ken G. Hall, 1940)

Fair Game (Mario Andreacchio, 1986) aka She Was Fair Game; three kangaroo hunters terrorise isolate woman; shot around Burra, SA

Girl of the Bush, A (Franklyn Barrett, 1921)

Grandad Rudd (Ken G. Hall, 1935) aka Ruling the Roost

Hayseeds Come to Sydney, The (Beaumont Smith, 1917) aka The Hayseeds Come To Town

Hayseeds' Back-Blocks Show, The (Beaumont Smith, 1917)

Hayseeds' Melbourne Cup, The (Beaumont Smith, 1918)

Hayseeds, The (Beaumont Smith, 1933) aka Our Friends, The Hayseeds; Cecil Kellaway; characters from Smith's (six - or seven?) silent films with the Hayseed family (1917,